In terms of money spent on transfer fee and wages, Bentley was terrible for us. He's clearly not a bad player, but we paid £17m to sign him and many millions in wages and he was terrible for us. I felt quite sorry for him.

I was always sad Rebrov could never seem to get it together. That Dynamo side with him and Shevchenko was beautiful to watch. I always felt something went wrong for Rebrov... whether it was failing to adapt to the culture, an ill-fitting team dynamic, something, because he could damn well play at times. A real pity that one.

Jenas helped us win the League Cup and scored some important goals against Arsenal. For that, he gets a pass in my book. He was better than Bentley in any case, who was nonexistant aside from that goal. Nowhere near the worst, though.

The loan signing of Andy Booth always springs to mind. Or watching Mido wobble around the pitch after he lost interest in football. And he's been mentioned already, but Paolo Tramezzani really was atrocious (apparently he's currently the assistant coach with the Albanian national side). In fact, most of our full-backs throughout the 90's were pretty dire - with the exception of a pre-injuries Stephen Carr.

Not the worst ever, but look up highlights of any NLD between 2008 and 2010 and I dare you to not find at least one point during any one where you don't facepalm and say "God dammit, Hutton". How we managed to get actual money for him, I'll never know.

Note the caveat I put in there: if we field out best at each position. He CERTAINLY isn't the weakest link on the whole team.

JD wouldn't be on the pitch if we were fielding our best XI. Soldado would be (hopefully). But let's leave out anyone who hasn't yet played in a Premier League match for us. Defoe still probably doesnt make it... Ade would. Bale, Lennon, Dembélé, Sandro, Holtby/Siggy, Walker, Kaboul/Dawson, Jan, BAE, Lloris.

Out of that XI, I still say BAE is the weakest link. I would probably concede Holtby and Ade would enter into the conversation (even though I think Holtby will improve this season)...

I agree people are too hard on Benny. But, if you consider I said he's the weakest link in a fucking unbelievable first team, you'll understand I wasn't really saying anything too bad about him.